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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

Having managed or worked with clinical leaders in care-delivery organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, and government, I have observed three skills that are critical to the success of doctors and nurses as they make the transition to management: Operations management and execution. People leadership.

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Is Your Company as Ethical as It Seems?

Harvard Business Review

Despite having solid internal anti-corruption rules in place, the pharmaceutical giant wound up facing criminal investigations for bribing doctors and foreign officials , eventually paying a $489 million fine. These practices continued under executive leadership that stifled disagreement with superiors and, all told, led to $1.2

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How to Ask for a Raise

Harvard Business Review

“But there’s an art to the ask,” says Diana Faison, a partner with leadership development firm Flynn Heath Holt Leadership. You should also avoid “implicitly or explicitly threatening to leave” as a negotiating tactic, says McGinn. What the Experts Say. Look forward, not backward.

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